Coco meets Velvet at a protest after falling for her mother's guilt trip.
Written for Sapphic September Day 2 - Political AU.
Chapter 2
"Where did all these pamphlets come from?" Cara looked over her sister's bedroom with her head tilted to the side as she stood in the doorway. Her brown hair nearly tickled her shoulders when she did that. "Isn't the White Fang a hate group?"
Coco glared at her sister from her desk, "It's a faunus activist group, Caramella." Her back straightened at the use of her full name and Cara held up her hands in surrender. Coco turned back to her computer, "I'm doing some research."
"Does Mom know about this research?" Cara crossed her arms with a smirk when Coco rolled her shoulders. "She doesn't!" Coco huffed and started typing. Cara walked up behind her to see what exactly she was doing. There was a messenger app in the corner of her screen with another girl's smiling face watching from her little bubble.
"Did you want something, Cara?" Coco paused in her typing as Cara leaned over her shoulder. Her nose nearly touched the screen. "Or are you really this interested in the dismantling of faunus oppression?"
Cara hummed as her eyes scanned the article that Coco had up. "Dust is toxic?"
Coco sighed and propped herself up on the desk, "When it's breathed in during the mining process, yes."
"Huh," Cara moved out of Coco's space, "I didn't know that. What's it got to do with faunus oppression though?" Coco resisted rolling her eyes. "Oh! The Schnee Dust Company!" Cara actually giggled, "They're always getting fined for safety violations."
"And their workforce is almost entirely faunus," Coco tacked on as her sister moved back to flop on Coco's bed. Coco turned her chair to face her sister again, "I didn't realize how bad it was either, before I started looking."
A smirk spread over Cara's face, "And why did you start looking, Colette?"
Coco froze. Behind her, a message chimed from the messenger bubble in the corner of her screen. Cara's lips spread wide in a grin. "She's a faunus then, I assume?" Coco huffed, and nodded.
"Her name is Velvet, she's from Menagerie. She's here for school."
"Granny will love this!" Cara clapped her hands repeatedly as she bounced on the bed, "You know Mom's never been rebellious enough for her!" She quieted herself, "Tell me everything!"
There was much scowling and growling before Cara finally skipped from Coco's room and she could turn back to her computer without cursing.
Some of us are getting together for drinks tonight, at The Beacon. Want to come?
Coco smiled at the message and immediately started typing.
Could I bring Fox?
Velvet's response was instantaneous.
Of course! The more the merrier!
Yatsu and Blake will both be there too, so it's probably a good idea for you to have some backup for the interrogation.
The stream of emojis at the end did nothing for the sudden pit in Coco's stomach. She took a steadying breath and thought of Velvet's blinding smile.
"Just drinks. With her best friends." Coco reminded herself as she stood to pick out some clothes. "That's no big deal. None at all." She sent Fox a quick voice message with the details. "Just drinks."
Dealing with her nosy little sister was suddenly looking good.
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